2007-10-19 08:10:00 · 10 answers · asked by xiao l 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
A cycle has no beginning
2007-10-19 08:12:58 · answer #1 · answered by Helen B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.
2007-10-19 21:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by Meili Wong 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look at this from an evolutionary point of view, the first creature that was called a chicken, being a bird, hatched from an egg. However, the thing that made the egg was not a chicken but the ancestor of the chicken. Therefore the egg came first.
2007-10-19 08:16:20 · answer #3 · answered by Mike P 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd say chicken because they changed from another creature making a cycle of chicken egg.
2007-10-19 08:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chickens evolved from reptiles which lay eggs. Thus, first egg, then chicken.
2007-10-19 08:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by chelseablue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there isnt any beginning to that. the egg wouldnt be here without the chicken and the chicken wouldnt be here without the egg.
2007-10-19 08:20:45 · answer #6 · answered by redcarpetchic15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ill coat the chicken with its eggs and deep fry it in bacon fat. yummy!
2007-10-19 08:18:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow..........so many folks ask this!
Obviously the egg, because bird ancestors (reptiles) lay eggs.
2007-10-19 08:14:39 · answer #8 · answered by BandEB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get to the other side.
2007-10-19 08:31:36 · answer #9 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll have the fish
2007-10-19 08:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by Franklin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋